bumblebee
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- noun
- /ˈbʌmbəlˌbi/
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- The bumblebee buzzed around the garden, pollinating the colorful flowers.
- bumblebee worker
And in the dream, a bumblebee was in my ear.
- And in the dream, a bumblebee was in my ear.
- And I see like flies and big bumblebees, but no honey bees.
- I got to the bottom of the escalator, and right in front of me was a bumblebee.
- And for example, if those bumblebees are extinguished, we ain't going to have fruit and so on.
- Let's talk about the lovely bumblebee sign of Manchester.
- The starting letter for bumblebee B.
- So they say web can detect a bumblebee on the moon.
- I, I don't like bumblebees and spiders.
Examples
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Just like a bumblebee going from flower to flower.
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I am a cute little bumblebee!
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But you see, the bumblebee does not know that it cannot fly, so it just goes flying all over the place.
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At first sight it seems almost impossible that the bumblebee would be able to fly, but it does.
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And in the dream, a bumblebee was in my ear.
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You sound like a little bumblebee.
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These are the Bosque blue bumblebees right here.
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It has been calculated that a bumblebee could fly around the world 200 times, nearly five million miles, on a gallon of honey.
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On its travels for nectar, a bumblebee may be attacked by a parasitic fly, which lays an egg in its body.
Academic text (2000) -
The bluebell flower here is being visited by a bumblebee (Bombus bifarius).
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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A flying insect with a hairy body that collects nectar and pollen
A large fuzzy bee that gathers nectar from flowers
A large, hairy bee that helps flowers make seeds by moving pollen
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bumblebee is simply bumble + bee. Bumble is a sound word that imitates a low 'buzz' or a clumsy movement, and bee names the insect, so a bumblebee is the large, noisy bee that often buzzes and wobbles as it visits flowers.